OWC is sending me a new adapter. Thanks for all the help, much appreciated.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> On Nov 21, 2014, at 2:10 AM, Christopher Bischoff <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Thinking back, I am fairly certain they were not RAID, yes, they showed
> up separately.
>
> Not RAID then.
>
> > Sys Info on the USB attached, shows only my mouse dongle.
>
> Hmm. My drive dongle is different, but it will show up on the USB bus when
> plugged in by itself, IIRC.
>
> > Unfortunately, I have no other drives to test with, just the two, but
> they both do the same good spin-up sound you would expect.
> > If it matters, the adapter will not spin up the drives until plugged
> into the USB port.
>
> And at this point System Profiler still only shows the mouse on USB?  I'm
> starting to think it's the adapter, not the drives.
>
>
> >  If I launch DiskWarrior with the drives spinning, it freezes on
> "searching for disks".
>
> Fire up console and watch the log while you plug the adapter in with the
> drives. If you start seeing lots of USB errors it might be the adapter.
>
> One USB trick: if you have a powered USB hub, try connecting the adapter
> through that.
>
> > The instruction manual says wait 30 seconds and the drive will show up
> as a USB device,  I gave it a good fifteen minutes, a restart...
> > Again, thanks for your help.
> >
>
>
>
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Bruce Johnson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 20, 2014, at 1:41 AM, Christopher Bischoff <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> By terminators I was referring to those 2mm grey things with two holes
> used on that four pin doo-hicky by the drive connections, from what I
> remember they changed the drive configuration. Shoot, jumper is the word I
> wanted. Again, it has been several years, but one of the drives was pinned
> out, and would not spin up until the jumper was removed.
> >
> > There are two settings enabled by those jumpers Spread Spectrum Clocking
> <
> http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1291/~/a-description-of-spread-spectrum-clocking-for-wd-sata-drives>
> and OPT1, which is reduced power spinup. That would explain how one
> wouldn’t spin  up until it was removed.
> >
> >
> >> This may answer Wil's question, one pinned, one not. Possibly they were
> RAID, I honestly don't remember, do remember they had to be configured this
> way to work in the G5, installed them both. Both Barracuda 7200s, 160Gb and
> 200Gb.  No chuKA noises, just a smooth warm up to a nice hum.
> >> This is the adapter I have, which lights up sowing all connections are
> good. I think.
> >>
> >
> > If they were in a raid configuration, they’ll both need to be attached
> to see the RAID, I think, but they should show up in disk utility then,
> even if they‘re not mountable. They’d at least pop up as ‘this drive is
> unreadable on this mac do you want to format it? ‘, I think.
> >
> > Do you remember if they showed up separately on the desktop on the G5?
> >
> > What does System Information show for the USB bus with the adapter
> connected and the drives on?
> >
> > Have you tested the adapter with a known-good SATA drive?
> >
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